Methodism’s Flight from Establishment and Its Price
A critical discourse argues Methodism left the Anglican Establishment not by expulsion but by vitality failure within the church. It warns Parliament’s control and bishops’ jests would have mocked Wesley100 years ago. The piece compares papal mendicants to Methodists, tracing church vitality, reform, and the rise of a priest-led Broad Church amid Decline of Establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley
Ghaenbe
Mr. Davies
Mendicant
Francis of Assisi
Innocent III
Mr. Brows
Dean Stanley
Broad Church
Church of England
The Burials Question in Manchester Clergy Debate
The John Bull discusses burial rights for Dissenters, noting support from the Dean and Chancellor of Manchester for hymn singing and prayer after services. It compares burial to marriage reforms, citing Canon Ridley on Parliament redressing grievances and hints at civil rights solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bull
Manchester
Canon Ridley
Times
Parliament
Dissenters seek burial rights amid churchyard conflict
A debate on Burials Bills and churchyards, led by ministers and bishops, weighs allowing Dissenting ministers to bury in nonconformist chapels or Church of England grounds. The Times urges practicality, warns against stripping living congregations, and calls for clear proposals while preserving religious toleration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Church of England
The
Times
House of the Dead
England’s people will judge abuses of churchyard norms
The passage contends that those admitted to the churchyard act on good behavior and will be the sole sufferers if folly occurs. It asserts England and Dissenters will see through misuses of a position given for truth and peace.
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England
Church and State on the Continent in Flux
The Prussian Ecclesiastical Tribunal moves to remove Archbishop Melchers of Cologne and orders a preliminary probe. Reports cite a possible armistice between church and state, with Vatican efforts to adjust civil marriage law and Falk Laws. debates touch Old Catholic issues and Austrian monastic reforms as Parliament weighs positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melchers
Cologne
Berlin
Germania
Italia
Visconti Venosta
Bismarck
Vatican
National Zeitung
National Liberals
The
Telegraph
von Schulte
Reichsrath
Gladstone Responds on Sunday Rest Question
The correspondence from Working Men's Lord's Day Rest Association reports Charles Hii praising a Geneva prize for an essay on Sunday rest. Hawarden replies by noting the Lord's Day as a religious institution and urges working men to value the Christian day of rest, expressing continued support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Working Men’s Lord's Day Rest Association
Bedford-row
W.C
Geneva
Charles Hii
Hawarden
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MR. Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
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